This replica flux capacitor can be yours for $350 from the DeLorean Motor Company.

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This replica flux capacitor can be yours for $350 from the DeLorean...

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It doesn't really help you travel through time though.

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It doesn't really help you travel through time though.

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"Back to the Future" centers around a plutonium-powered DeLorean that can time travel.

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"Back to the Future" centers around a plutonium-powered DeLorean...

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21st October 1981: American entrepreneur John De Lorean at Earls Court where he is exhibiting his futuristic sports car at the Motorfair. His company is currently under investigation over financial matters. (Photo by Simon Dack/Keystone/Getty Images)
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21st October 1981: American entrepreneur John De Lorean at Earls...

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DeLorean Motor Company of Humble

John DeLorean, the late charismatic former GM executive, founded his own car company to build two-seat sport coupes in 1981 and 1982. But the venture failed after producing about 9000 cars. A liquidator purchased unsold cars shortly after the company failed, and small independent companies began to carry replacement parts for the unique midengine stainless-steel-body cars.

In 2007 one of these companies, DMC Texas, began to produce new cars made from mostly stock parts, and sold these 1980s restorations for about $60,000 each. Now called DeLorean Motor Company of Humble, it also sells refurbished used DeLoreans from its shop in Humble, Texas. Plans are in the works to build and sell all-electric DeLoreans starting around $90,000, which will feature a 100-mile range and a 260-hp electric motor.

(PopMech has also visited the guys at DeLorean Northwest, a Washington State shop that restores these cars.)

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Musician and actor Rakoon has owned his 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 since 2012.

Stephen Wynne sells about a half-dozen new Deloreans a year that he constructs from inventory parts.

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Stephen Wynne. owner of DeLorean Motor Co., in Humble, poses for a portrait Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in Humble. Along with the vintage cars, made famous in the 1980s movie 'Back to the Future', Wynne and the DMC is working prototype electric DeLorean car.

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Stephen Wynne sells about a half-dozen new Deloreans a year that he constructs from inventory parts.

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Replica Back To The Future flux capacitors could soon be coming to the Houston area

The DeLorean Motor Company location in Huntington Beach, California has been selling replicas of the flux capacitor used in the Back To The Future movies, which can be installed in your Toyota Prius, Chevy Silverado, or restored DeLorean if you are so lucky to own one.

Due to demand from collectors and nostalgia-starved film fans, DeLorean's Humble location northwest of Houston is now mulling over selling the replicas as well. In the movie they made time travel possible, but these flux capacitors only make for great conversation pieces.

"We'll probably start carrying them soon, so this might be the call that makes me start selling them," said general manager James Espey at the Humble office on Thursday. Espey says that they don't have to be car-bound, as they can also make great decorations on your mantle at home or an office desk, and run on a nine-volt battery.

The DeLorean company's Humble outpost is located off a side street near the intersection of Beltway 8 and the Eastex Freeway and has a 40,000-square-foot warehouse.

The gray, metal building also houses a giant garage and showroom for two pristine Deloreans. A makeshift museum of historic DeLorean memorabilia fills one corner of the showroom. A "Back to the Future" pinball machine is tucked away in another corner.

"We've been selling them for some time," says Cameron Wynne, GM at the Huntington Beach, CA location, of the time travel devices. For $350 you can own a flux capacitor that lights up and makes the same mechanical sounds heard in the movie.They are available by mail order, and you can spring for next-day delivery, Wynne says, if you can't wait more than a day.

They sell around a dozen of them a year, he says. He's heard of them being displayed in cars, garages, man caves, and living rooms.

"We also make replica Back To The Future cars here on site," says Wynne, whose father Stephen Wynne acquired the DeLorean brand and a warehouse full of car parts in the 1990s, more than a decade after the DeLorean Motor Co. filed for bankruptcy.

Those replica cars will run about $45,000 if you opt for the full movie conversion, which takes about three months from start to finish. Right now he says they are restoring a DeLorean for a famous comedian who already has 40 cars in his personal collection.

Wynne said that expects business to pick for all things DeLorean when the movie series turns 30 years old in 2015, so they could be getting busier than usually within in a few months.

They also sell the Mr. Fusion cylinders seen in 1989's Back To The Future II. In the movie they ran on garbage but these, sadly, just run on battery and cost $300.

In addition to Texas and California, there are also DeLorean locations in Washington state, Florida, Illinois, and the Netherlands.